Cleaning up a very dirty pool with a DE filter

[jrtredo]

Thanks for the reply!! We don't have a multiport valve, so we will see about installing a by pass and the waste valve. Should we being using the liquid chlorine from the pool store or just use Clorox?

[Watermom]

They are the same thing --- sodium hypochlorite --- just at different concentrations. Most of us just buy generic bleach at Walmart which is 8.35% sodium hypochlorite. Just make sure you don't buy scented.

[jrtredo]

Thanks, We bypassed the filter and have been running the pool 24/7, we have been chlorinating every night and it is beginning to lighten a bit. The ph looks ok, do we need to worry about adding any stabilizer for the chlorine?

[PoolDoc]

You'll need stabilizer. But while your pool is slimed, if you add the bleach at night -- so it can 'work' all night -- you'll have lost most of it by AM anyhow. And, the chlorine is more 'active' without stabilizer. So for now, it's not too critical.

Once your pool is fairly clear, though, it will need to be stabilized.

[jrtredo]

I started another thread, but thought I would post here as well to follow up. We ran into a leaky return line fitting. We dug down, drained the pool down to the fitting level and removed the fitting. When we went to install the new fitting, we can't fit it through the hole in the liner as the flange is too big, is there a trick that nanyone knows to do this? Should we try to diconnect the liner and slide the fitting between the pool wall and the liner from the top?

thanks